Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line

The Karlobag-Ogulin-Karlovac-Virovitica line is a hypothetical boundary often used to describe the western extent of Greater Serbia. Everything east of the line is to be Serbia, while the west of it would be Croatia and Slovenia. Such a boundary would give the majority of the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Serbs.

This line was frequently referenced by Serbian politician Vojislav ŠešeljICTY: [http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/cis/seselj/cis-seselj.pdf cis-seselj.pdf] ] .

Some Serbian nationalists supported the line and a greater Serbian state for national and economical reasonsFact|date=June 2008. It would give Serbia a large coastline, heavy industries, agricultural farmland, natural resources and all of the crude oil (mostly found in the Pannonian Plain), particularly in the Socialist Republic of Croatia. Also, it would gather over 98% of Serbs of Yugoslavia in one state. In his speeches and books, Šešelj claimed that all of the population of these areas are in fact ethnic Serbs, of Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Muslim faith. However, outside of Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party, that in recent years abandoned actively advocating the line, though it still officially considers it a long-term goal, the line was never promoted in recent Serbian political life.

ee also

* Greater Serbia
* Stevan Moljević
* Vojislav Šešelj

References

External links

* http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest/3/t3-1.htm
* http://www.diacritica.com/sobaka/2004/seselj.html
* http://www.nsf-journal.hr/issues/v3_n3-4/pdf/11-footnotes.pdf
* [http://www.un.org/icty/transe1/960531ed.htm Evidence from the ICTY trial Case No. IT-94-1-T that details Stevan Moljevic's Greater Serbia plan]
* ICTY transcripts of court case discussing the Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line: [http://www.un.org/icty/transe14/980910oed.htm] , [http://www.un.org/icty/transe67/030226IA.htm] , [http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/030627IT.htm] , [http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/050915IT.htm] , [http://www.un.org/icty/transe13-1/051121IT.htm]
* [http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/cis/seselj/cis-seselj.pdf Vojislave Seselj trial - ICTY information sheet]